Faculty: Karol Edward SoltanAssociate Professor, Committee on Politics, Philosophy and Public Policy (CP4)
Director, Committee on Politics, Philosophy and Public Policy
Affiliated Research Scholar, Institute of Philosophy and Public Policy, School of Public Policy
Co-director and Co-founder, Summer Institute of Civic Studies, Tufts University
Curriculum Vitae
Karol Sołtan is working to develop both the new field of civic studies and an intellectually and politically ambitious conception of moderation. As part of these projects his main research interests have been constitutionalism and development broadly understood.
His research has ranged from theoretical accounts of power and legitimacy, and reformulations of the notion of constitutionalism, to practical questions about policy and reform interventions to promote long term development in fragile states.
At the University of Maryland, he teaches in the Department of Government and Politics, and as part of the program of the Committee for Politics, Philosophy and Public Policy.
He has also taught in the University of Maryland School of Law, in the Department of Economics at the University of Warsaw, and in the National School of Public Administration in Warsaw. He has been a visiting scholar at the School of Law at the University of Toulouse.
Among his recent publications is a series of books he co-edited and to which he contributed: A New Constitutionalism; The Constitution of Good Societies; Institutions and Social Order; Politics from Anarchy to Democracy; and Global Democracy and its Difficulties.
Sołtan was co-founder of the Conference Group on Jurisprudence and Public Law, and of the Committee for the Political Economy of the Good Society.
Sołtan’s engagements outside the academic world have also reflected his commitment to civic moderation. In 2000 he served as Deputy Director of the Office of Political, Constitutional and Electoral Affairs of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, and for two months he was also Acting Cabinet Member for Political Affairs in the Transitional Government of East Timor. From 2003 to 2004 he directed the Recovered States Task Force as part of the IRIS Project on Fragile States for USAID. During the summer of 2005, he spent a month in Iraq as a consultant to the Kurdistan government in the negotiations on the Iraqi constitution.
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Last updated: December 9, 2011
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